grace. (Latin gratia, meaning "plesant quality" or "good will") refers to a free and undeserved supernatural gift or help that God gives persons so that they may respond to the divine call to salvation. (See Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 1996-2005).
We as Catholics believe that God sent his only son, Jesus, down from heaven to save us all from our sins. He died on the cross for us and on the third day he rose from the dead and opened the gates of heaven so that we may have life after death. Also when we receive the sacraments God gives us grace, or forgiveness.
Roman Catholic AnswerGrace is the supernatural gift that God, of His free benevolence, bestows on rational creatures for their eternal salvation. (from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J.)Great question.
There are several general aspects under which grace can be understood:
More specifically, there is a distinction between Sanctifying (or Habitual) Grace and that which is termed Actual Grace:
Again there is also a distinction between Sacramental Graces and those that are called Special Graces (or charisms).
Grace Is Beyond Our Experience
Since it belongs to the supernatural order, grace escapes our experience and cannot be known except by faith. We cannot therefore rely on our feelings or our works to conclude that we are justified and saved. [cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1533-1534.] However, according to the Lord's words - "Thus you will know them by their fruits" [Mt 7:20] - reflection on God's blessings in our life and in the lives of the saints offers us a guarantee that grace is at work in us and spurs us on to an ever greater faith and an attitude of trustful poverty.
A pleasing illustration of this attitude is found in the reply of St. Joan of Arc to a question posed as a trap by her ecclesiastical judges: "Asked if she knew that she was in God's grace, she replied:
'If I am not, may it please God to put me in it; if I am, may it please God to keep me there.'" (CCC no. 2005)
REFERENCES
Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Catechism of the Catholic Church, (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1994.)
Grace is undeserved favour.
For example in this verse:
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
we can see God extends favour (undeserved) to man. There is nothing anybody can do to restore their relationship with God. But God has made it possible for a person to enter a right relationship with HIm.
from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994
Grace: The free and undeserved gift that God gives us to respond to our vocation to become his adopted children. As sanctifying grace, God shares His divine life and friendship with us in a habitual gift, a stable and supernatural disposition that enables the soul to live with God, to act by His love. As actual grace, god gives us the help to conform our lives to His will. Sacramental grace and special graces (charisms, the grace of one's state of life) are gifts of the Holy Spirit to help us live out our Christian vocation ([see paragraphs] 1996, 2000; cf. 654)
from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980
Ex opere operato. A term defined by the council of Trent to describe how the sacraments confer the grace they signify. Trent condemned the following proposition: "that grace is not conferred 'ex opere operato' by the sacraments of the New Law" (Denzinger 1608). Literally the expression means "from the work performed" stating that grace is always conferred by a sacrament, in virtue of the rite performed and not as a mere sign that grace has already been given, or that the sacrament stimulates the faith of the recipient and thus occasions the obtaining of grace, or that what determines the grace is the virtue of either the minister or recipient of a sacrament. Provided no obstacles (obex) is placed in the way, every sacrament properly administered confers the grace intended by the sacrament. In a true sense the sacraments are instrumental causes of grace.
Sacrament. A sensible sign, instituted by Jesus Christ, by which invisible grace and inward sanctification are communicated to the soul. The essential elements of a sacrament of the New Law are institution by Christ the God-man during his visible stay on earth, and a sensibly perceptible rite that actually confers the supernatural grace it symbolizes...
Initial grace is the same thing as sanctifying grace. According to Roman Catholicism, it occurs at baptism and results in salvation and removal of the stain of original sin.
Olivia is Latin in origin meaning "olive". Grace means "kindness" and may refer to the Virgin Mary in Roman Catholicism.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe only way that anyone can be converted to Catholicism is for them to accept the grace of God.
The Jansenist Formulary Controversy pitted the Jansenists against the Jesuits. The Roman Catholic Church confirmed free will and the necessity of grace. Catholicism was then divided into Thomism and Augustinism. The Jesuits favored sufficient grace while the Jansenists favored efficacious grace.
a Blend name-Like say Marianne, in this case of Diana (Goddess of the Hunt) and Ann or Anne usually identified with Grace and in Roman catholicism the mother of St.Mary.
In practical terms the function of Catholicism is to provide the means for us to gain eternal life by entering the Kingdom of Heaven through Baptism and to practice the essentials for living a Christian life. Catholicism is the religion through which man is able to come to knowledge of God's revelation and thus establish the proper relationship with God through His vehicle the Church. Catholicism is the religion God Himself founded as a means through which grace may come to people, that they may go to heaven and be with Him. This is the basic function one would expect from true religion.
Catholicism.
Odd question, the answer is no, Catholicism is Christianity.
He convented back to Catholicism
A person can be a Catholic. The religion is Catholicism. . Catholicism is a noun, normally a collective noun, Catholic can be a noun or an adjective.
There is no specific ceremony for a Protestant converting to Catholicism, but anyone entering Catholicism must be Baptised.
The purpose of Holy Orders is to ordain individuals for service in the Church as bishops, priests, and deacons. Through Holy Orders, these individuals receive a special sacramental grace to carry out their ministry and serve the faithful.